Philippines: Death toll reaches 47 in Mindanao massacre

The death toll from the Mindanao election-related massacre has risen to 47 as more bodies of victims were unearthed from the massacre site Tuesday. News reporters were among the victims.

The ABS-CBN TV Patrol Tuesday evening Newscast has reported 47 deaths after 11 more bodies were recovered from the massacre site by the local police.

The massacre took place in a remote town of Datu Abdullah Sanki in Maguindanao where the wife of a town mayor along with a group of reporters and political supporters were abducted and massacred by some 100 armed men believed to be supporters of the vice-mayor's political opponent.

The convoy of the vice-mayor's wife along with local news reporters were on their way to register the candidacy of the Vice-Mayor for the gubernatorial post in the coming 2010 election when the massacre happened.